SHARING INFORMATION ON PROGRESS (SIP) REPORT 2016 EAE BUSINESS SCHOOL EAE Business School www.eae.es 932278090
INDEX I. EAE Business School General Overview II. III. Renewal of the Commitment to PRME PRME Principles at EAE Business School: a) Principle 1 and 2. Curriculum change b) Principle 3. Method c) Principle 4. Research d) Principles 5 and 6. Partnerships IV. Key objectives for the next 18-month period with regard to the implementation of the Principles. V. Desired support from the PRME community for the next 18 months. VI. VII. Sustainability on campus. Our Pictures & Activities about PRME
I. EAE BUSINESS SCHOOL GENERAL OVERVIEW EAE Business School is a Business School with more than 50 years of experience, specializing in business education for administrators. Throughout our trajectory, more than 60,000 managers and executives from both national and international firms, public and private institutions and organizations from distinct fields have placed their trust in us. EAE is a member of GRUPO PLANETA, a global leader in generating and publishing content in the management field. GRUPO PLANETA s connections and support network afford us a privileged position and scope among Spanish and International Business Schools. Every year, participants from more than 47 nationalities receive training at EAE in order to perform managerial functions within the business and institutional fields. EAE has one of the best educational catalogues on a national level with nearly one hundred postgraduate programs and two university degrees. Related to these are the hundreds of ongoing educational courses and in-company trainings that EAE develops for its collaborating businesses. EAE has also developed the most flexible methodology in management training in Spain with in-person, online and blended learning, which combines in-person, online and distance training. EAE has three campuses: Two in BARCELONA where its programmes are taught as dual degree programs with the Polytechnic University of Catalonia and another in MADRID where programmes are taught in conjunction with Universidad Rey Juan Carlos. Considered to be among the best universities in Europe for their teaching and research activities, they award degrees from EAE with the backing of two prestigious Universities. At the same time, EAE has international delegations located in Lima (Peru), Bogotá (Colombia) and Mexico City (Mexico) in order to strengthen our institutional ties with Latin America. Our business school also maintains agreements with more than a hundred academic institutions and business schools in 40 different countries. The high standards of quality applied by EAE have allowed for the Institution to be the first Spanish Business School to obtain the International Quality Certification ISO 9001, empowering it to accredit and guarantee the high academic level of its programs and professors. Its academic faculty is one of its most important assets and is composed of professors, professionals and administrators in the international field, who provide the most up-to-date knowledge for its programs.
In addition, EAE is AEEDE accredited, a hallmark that reflects the recognition and academic experience of the best Spanish Business Schools, and is the national representative of EQUAL (European Quality Link). EAE is a member of prestigious national and international entities: AACSB INTERNATIONAL (The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business), EFMD, (European Foundation for Management Development), CLADEA, (Latin American Council of Management Schools), forq (Association for Quality Ongoing Education); EBEN (European Business Ethics Network); IBS (European MBA Network International Business Studies); IFI (International Taxation Institute) y AVH (Alexander Von Humboldt Foundation). EAE has been ranked as the second most renowned Business School in Spain, according to Merco 2015. Merco annually analyses the corporate reputation of the 100 largest companies in Spain. Since 2007, EAE has been ranked within the top five Business Schools in Spain. According to the ranking published by the daily national newspaper El Mundo, The 250 best Masters in Spain (2014 edition), six of EAE s Masters have been selected as the best Masters in Spain within their functional area. In addition, according to the Ranking of America Economia, The best global Business Schools in 2015 EAE has been selected among the first 30 business schools in the world. This context allows EAE to nurture its international experience and to be a global model in higher education. EAE is socially committed to continuing to surpass challenges in the fields of personal and managerial training.
II. RENEWAL OF THE COMMITMENT TO PRME Please, find enclosed below a letter of our renewal of the commitment to PRME Principles, signed by the highest executive of our organization:
III. PRME PRINCIPLES AT EAE BUSINESS SCHOOL PRINCIPLE 1 PURPOSE: We will develop the capabilities of students to be future generators of sustainable value for business and society at large and to work for an inclusive and sustainable global economy. PRINCIPLE 2 VALUES: We will incorporate into our academic activities and curricula the values of global social responsibility as portrayed in international initiatives such as the United Nations Global Compact. PRINCIPLE 3 METHOD: We will create educational frameworks, materials, processes and environments that enable effective learning experiences for responsible leadership. PRINCIPLE 4 RESEARCH: We will engage in conceptual and empirical research that advances our understanding about the role, dynamics, and impact of corporations in the creation of sustainable social, environmental and economic value. PRINCIPLE 5 PARTNERSHIP: We will interact with managers of business corporations to extend our knowledge of their challenges in meeting social and environmental responsibilities and to explore jointly effective approaches to meeting these challenges. PRINCIPLE 6 DIALOGUE: We will facilitate and support dialog and debate among educators, business, government, consumers, media, civil society organizations and other interested groups and stakeholders on critical issues related to global social responsibility and sustainability.
a. PRINCIPLE 1 AND 2 CURRICULUM CHANGE PURPOSE The PRME Principle 1 is fully embedded in EAE Business School s mission, that states: To fulfill the management education needs of society through a responsible training of current and future business leaders, always committed with social progress and sustainable development. CURRICULUM INTEGRATION EAE Business School introduced during 2009 a mandatory course on Corporate Social Responsibility in all Master and MBA programmes. EAE Business School s Master and MBA programmes count also on a mandatory course on Business Ethics. Among elective subjects and modules in different graduate programmes at EAE Business School, the following have been included: - Sustainability of Organizations - Sustainable Finance - Socially Responsible Investments - Market Citizenship and Political Consumption - Responsible Communication - Social Entrepreneurship - Stakeholders Responsible Management - Corporate Social Action and Philanthropy
b. PRINCIPLE 3 METHOD In order to create the convenient frameworks that will foster responsibility and sustainability values among our students beyond their education programmes, the following actions and initiatives have taken place: -Regular participation of speakers coming from the corporate world, in positions specially linked to CSR. -Guided visits to companies particularly reputed by their CSR and Sustainability performance. -Guided visits and presentation of Social Entrepreneurship projects. -Volunteering activities involving the students and some NGOs as Bank of Aliments, Intermón Oxfam, etc. -Documentaries, video reports or films related to CSR or to social, economical and environmental difficulties are exhibited for students. -EAE Business School fosters professors to ask for a sustainability report at any business plan or thesis project required in the curriculum. INTERNATIONAL AND DIVERSE ENVIRONMENT EAE Business School considers that international, ethnic, gender, religious and cultural diversity is a key driver to develop some values so linked to CSR and sustainability as respect, tolerance, acceptance and integration are. 64 % of EAE Business School comes not from Spain but from 47 different countries in the Americas, Africa, Asia and Europe. Special lines of Scholarships from EAE Business Schools are exclusive for students coming from countries in development and for women, based on academic excellence and professional merits and motivation, prioritizing those candidates who express their willing of developing social entrepreneurship or responsible business projects. EAE Business School increases the number of study aids and maintains the commitment acquired in 2008 with the United Nations to promote the principles of responsible education (PRME). The goal with this program is to help those participants with potential to be future responsible business leaders. In 2015, 180
students were benefited Scholarship Program EAE and in 2016, EAE plans to assist even more students. c. PRINCIPLE 4 RESEARCH Very conscious that a lot of things and progresses in this field have still to be done, EAE Business School has created a new line of research focused on CSR and Sustainability within the EAE SRC Strategic Research Center. This Center has published in 2014, the following studies: Report: La Inversión en I+D+i en España Year of Publication: 2015 Report by EAE Strategic Research Center http://bit.ly/2gott25 Report:La Empleabilidad de la Población Cualificada 2016 Year of Publication: 2016 Report by EAE Strategic Research Center http://bit.ly/2g0zlhc Report: El consumo de alimentos básicos 2016 Year of Publication: 2016 Report by EAE Strategic Research Center http://bit.ly/2h2vwd2 Report: El gasto farmacéutico en España Year of Publication: 2016 Report by EAE Strategic Research Center http://bit.ly/2fp7k2t Also the Academic Direction is fostering professors to develop research on the different fields and subjects of CSR and sustainability, awarding them with sponsoring to attend congresses, conferences and events on CSR and sustainability in Spain and/or abroad.
d. PRINCIPLE 5 AND 6 PARTNERSHIPS AND DIALOGUE EAE JOINS GLOBAL COMPACT The Global Compact is an international initiative by the United Nations. The goal is to achieve a voluntary commitment by the socially responsible institutions, through the implementation of ten principles based on human rights, labor, environment and anti-corruption. Collaboration with FEMAREC: FEMAREC is a private non-profit organization whose mission is the cultural and labor integration of people at risk of social exclusion. EAE signed the renewal of the agreement with FEMAREC. Every year EAE increases the number of cultural activities. Through the agreement with FEAM (Spanish Federation of Friends of Museums), a nonprofit entity, we manage all the cultural activities for students. Each month we celebrate an activity on campus in Madrid and another in Barcelona campus in order to promote art and culture among students and alumni. We visited the main galleries of the Prado Museum, Thyssen Bornesmiza Museum, Reina Sofia Museum, Picasso Museum,, Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA), National Art Museum of Catalonia (MNAC) or the Palau de la Musica Catalana, walking cultural tours like the Literary Tour of Madrid and Barcelona, the Tour of the Madrid of the Austrians or the Tour of Barcelona's Gothic Quarter. In order to advance in promoting sustainability and social responsibility among our students, EAE Business School offers internships in companies specially performers in those fields, as well as in some companies that started as social projects. We have developed some partnerships with NGOs as Intermon Oxfam, Economists without Borders, Association of Blood Donation, Bank of Aliments, etc. in order to make closer two worlds apparently distant for students. In terms of dialogue, regular meetings (twice a year) with EAE Business School s stakeholders are held in order to know their needs to be fulfilled through our activities and as a necessary feedback for our organization in the way to a continuous improvement to quality.
IV. KEY OBJECTIVES FOR THE NEXT 18-MONTH PERIOD WITH REGARD TO THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PRINCIPLES. In the next one year and a half we will reinforce our commitment to the PRME through different initiatives and activities, not just focused on our cohort of students but especially in the rest of actors of EAE Business School, as the Faculty body, staff, alumni, shareholders, top management, suppliers, companies, our closer environment and the society-at-large. Principle 1 PURPOSE Principle 2 VALUES Principle 3 METHOD Principle 4 RESEARCH Principle 5 PARTNERSHIP Principle 6 DIALOGUE Add questions related to CSR and Sustainability awareness in main interview to candidates during admission process. Deliver in our Welcome Programme a document with the PRME and our institutional commitment to them. Development of International Summer Programme focused on best practices in CSR and Sustainability. Introducing new modules on CSR, as elective courses in graduate and undergraduate programmes. Increase the number of funds destined to specific scholarships for women, disabled people and students from countries in development. Increase the number of visits to responsible companies and social business developments. Increase the number of publications in CSR and Sustainability through our Strategic Research Center Strengthen our institutional and corporate partnership network based on common projects and initiatives involving social, economical sustainability, environmental and Human Rights aspects. Redefine our planning of meeting with stakeholders, creating specific groups for special subjects and more frequent meetings.
V. DESIRED SUPPORT FOR PRME COMMUNITY FOR THE NEXT 18 MONTHS Some advice or examples related to the implementation of the PRME would be welcomed, especially not just promoting among students but among the faculty and staff that usually feel more distant concerning CSR and Sustainability issues. Providing or recommending some speakers that could participate in our programmes and/or activities as well as more diffusion or events around PRME focused on best practice sharing, where starting Schools in these projects could learn from more advanced institutions. VI. SUSTAINABLE CAMPUS. During this period, we have reduced our consumption of paper 95 %. At the end of 2013 EAE launched the e-secretaria, an innovative virtual administrative platform that allows EAE to manage all students documentation online, reducing remarkably the consumption of paper. Other actions carried out in order to be more efficient in energy consumption and to reduce CO2 emissions: - Establish an average temperature in the air conditioning system. - Renew 60 % of the organization computers, changing them for more energy efficient ones. - Replace printing and copy machines for more energy efficient ones. Throughout the academic year 2015/2016 EAE carried out many different solidarity campaigns: - Collaboration on Blood Donation Campaign with the Blood and Tissue Bank of the Health Department of the Generalitat (Barcelona Campus) and with Cruz Roja (Madrid Campus) - In collaboration with AECC (Asociación Española contra el Cancer), EAE was one of the sponsors of the Carrera de la Mujer a running competition for women against the breast cancer. - Barcelona Positiva : five students of EAE Master in Corporate Communication organized this event involving children and their ability to promote good intentions and happiness among adults. -International Book Day: we celebrated the International Book day at EAE
- Christmas Solidarity. Food collection campaign for Dit i Fet Association (Barcelona Campus) and the Banco de Alimentos (Campus Madrid). Thanks to these campaigns, EAE could collect more than 550 kg of food. - Gastronomic EAE: enhance the knowledge of other countries through the culinary culture of each country. - Management Conferences on Corporate Social Responsibility in Madrid and Barcelona Campus are held on a weekly basis. Some of these Conferences we lead every year: Leadership and Business Ethics in a Global Market, Road Safety, our inherent Corporate Responsibility. -More than 15 cultural visits per year, per campus. Our students visited the most emblematic cultural sights of Barcelona and Madrid. Some of these visits where to: Sagrada Familia, Palau de la Musica, MNAC etc -Alumni Conference in Barcelona. We organized in October 2015 and October 2016 two conferences for our alumni in Museo Maritim de Barcelona and Llotja de Mar Barcelona -We founded a runners club for our students in order to enhance healthy activities among our students.
OUR PICTURES & ACTIVITIES ABOUT PRME BLOOD DONATION CAMPAIGN CHRISTMAS FOOD RECOLLECTION
GASTRONOMY OF THE WORLD
CAMPAIGN AGAINST BREAST CANCER, IN COLLABORATION WITH AEECC (Asociación Española contra el Cancer) EAE RUNNERS CLUB
CHRISTMAS TOAST IN BARCELONA AND MADRID
CONFERENCES AND CULTURAL MEETINGS